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The article's material concentrates on analysis of young people's (schoolboys') sociolect of nickname formation collected in studies of questionnaires within the area of three provinces: Slaskie, Malopolskie, and Zachodniopomorskie. Research was conducted in urban and rural student environments on various levels of education. The application of the sociolinguistic method and also of elements of statistical techniques in the analysis and interpretation of anthroponyms served to indicate regional and environmental differences and similarities in the process of creating nicknames, their motivational and structural types.